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  • ‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words

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  • Because in US politics, we generally have three types of politicians: MAGA, corporate Republicans, and corporate Democrats.

    Mamdani represents a possible fourth way, a way that (hopefully) values workers over capital.

    When he says "billionaires shouldn't exist" he is re-affirming his commitment to this fourth way, and that is a important positive sign.

  • let's learn about wage theft

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  • I'll be the pedantic one here and say it: Big Bird is wrong here, this is not wage theft.

    Wage theft is unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid benefits, tip theft, etc.

    If Big Bird is a Marxist, he should describe this type of theft as surplus labor value.

    Or if Big Bird is a capitalist, he would just call it profit.

  • Do billionaires have most of their income taxed as ordinary income or capital gains?

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  • I think most billionaires are not paying either of those taxes in any significant amounts.

    Most follow the buy borrow die method. Then their children just have to pay estate tax.

    Advanced tax cheats like Bill Gates take it one step further by creating their own charities. You give all your money to the "charity" and give your kids full control of the "charity". This way you can avoid paying estate tax, and you only need to give away a tiny percentage of your wealth to actual charities and PR firms to save face.

  • What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025

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  • Coffee is a diuretic, it is beneficial to the kidneys and hard on the stomach.

    A large percentage of cats die from kidney issues, not many die from stomach issues. So coffee is good for cats makes sense imo.

  • Sounds interesting

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  • The leaders of the New Atheist movement are not heroes; they are certainly imperfect. I agree with all of your criticisms, but you say nothing of the bulk of their work.

    Hitchens' God is Not Great will stand the test of time; his Islamophobia will not.

    Dawkins' The God Delusion is still correct, despite his late-in-life transphobia and "cultural Christianity".

  • Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack

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  • Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack

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  • Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks

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  • How do you know they will not comply with an order to land? No country has tried, despite their obligation to do so under the Rome Statute.

  • Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack

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  • Studies in the UK show that there are three classes of 'hard' drugs - alcohol, amphetamines, and opioids.

    All three roughly follow the '10% rule': 10% of people who try these drugs become addicted, and 10% of addicts die from their addiction.

    Meth, heroin, and alcohol each kill about 1% of the people who try them.

    Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis

  • Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack

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  • There have been many studies on this subject (none in the US, since we are under strict prohibition). They calculate both harm to user and harm to society.

    Almost all these studies are in agreement that there are three classes of 'hard' drugs that are significantly worse than the rest- opioids, amphetamines, and alcohol. Many rate alcohol as slightly more destructive than the other two.

    Tobacco is rated significantly less harmful, mostly because of the amount of tobacco it takes to do harm. No one dies from a single night of heavy smoking; many people die from a single night of alcohol, amphetamines, or opiates. Second-hand smoke is dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as a drunk driver.

    Personally I think these studies underrate benzodiazipines, they should be considered the fourth class of hard drugs imo.

  • Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls show

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  • Ok then, what made it unfair?

  • Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls show

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  • Yea Bernie was robbed, the DNC worked hard to sabotage his candidacy every step of the way. If Bernie got a fair shot, we would never have to utter the words "President Trump".

    But what about the Obama 08 primary was rigged?

    I think candidate Obama was a amazing liar- he lied about ending the wars and punishing the war criminals, he lied about immigration reform, he lied about healthcare reform, he lied about closing the torture prison at Guantanamo, etc etc. It's easy to blame Republican opposition, but Obama gave up on most of these major promises without a fight.

    A lying politician is normal though. What makes it rigged?

  • Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls show

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  • The last real Democratic Party primary was in 2020.

    Most of the people we are talking about were literally too young to participate in a meaningful primary.

    They had no opportunity to be involved in the process, and now they are being blamed for not participating. That's the modern Democratic Party in a nutshell.

  • Genocide is an American Tradition

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  • When Luigi killed that UHC oligarch, the company responded by lowering their claims denial rate by 1-2%. UHC processes hundreds of millions of claims every year.

    Do the math- the slaying of Brian Thompson meant that millions of claims that would have otherwise been denied were approved.

    By killing one oligarch, hundreds of lives were saved. Perhaps even thousands.

    We know this because Investors Are Pressing UnitedHealth Group to Deny More Care

  • Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks

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  • Right, you don't "just shoot down" planes. You order them to land, as they are in violation of your sovereign airspace, and in violation of international law.

    Russian planes violating European airspace are not shot down, they are ordered to land and they comply. Planes violating "US airspace" in Iraq and Afghanistan were not shot down, because they complied when ordered to land.

    And maybe I'm being pedantic, but a leader overseeing an ongoing genocide is an immediate threat of the highest order.

  • Genocide is an American Tradition

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  • There is currently widespread violence. It is the structural violence of poverty. Hundreds are being socially murdered everyday.

    Killing an oligarch is a certainly a violent act, but it reduces the overall violence in the system.

  • Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks

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  • Yes.

    Scramble jets, have air traffic control instruct them to land, and if they do not follow instructions then shoot to kill.

    This is literally how all restricted airspace works.

  • I'm here for memes, not snappy Xitter, 4Chan, reddit or similarly sourced screenshots of texts

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  • You are asking an interesting philosophical question, I feel a little out of my depth trying to answer.

    But yes, I believe every meme is an idea, every idea is a meme, and there is a 1:1 relationship. The word "meme" is just an idea that is viewed through the lens of evolution.

    Now as for the second question- should a screenshot of Twitter be allowed on this "meme" sub? - I don't have a strong opinion, but I lean towards no